ZWART, Wibo J

Architect

BArch (Natal).

TPIA (1956); ISAA (1956).

CHIPKIN (1993:299) states in his chapter 'Patio Houses' (294-304) that he is of the tradition of houses where 'the atmosphere exudes a robust African spirit without sentimentality'. He believed in the ''discipline of the use of natural materials''. He used standard-manufacture steel windows and ''not a square inch of plaster''.

CHIPKIN (2008: 379) recalls that his

distinctive kraal houses, I suspect, were influenced by the Pretoria regionalists as well as by the Pearlman family's Roodepoort Brickworks, rough semi-face commons and clinker brick in blues and plums - a brick much favoured by a generation of Johannesburg vernacular architects, ... .

In 1959 he was found in the employ of the NATIONAL BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NBRI) of the CSIR.

As Chipkin states 'He died tragically young.'

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

Courtyard House: 1960s. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

References

Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 287, 295, 299

Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pp 379

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 101, 198

Wale, Laurie (Editor). 1962. New home building ideas : Architects' plans for southern Africa. Cape Town: Purnell & Sons. pp 17